And boy was it a blast for them. We had only but a few hours to fish as mom got home a little late from work (but it’s sure nice when you only have a 10 minute drive to the landing). So I packed the boat and cooler and we headed out. My first objective was to hit the honey hole I found a week ago and pull cranks in about 22 fow. At this time I was the only one fishing as the kids were eating all the treats within the first 15 minutes of being in the boat and the wife was reading the paper. Well I missed a couple of fish on the rod holder but was able to boat this beautiful 21″ in about 14 fow. After about 40 minutes of slow action I decided to take the kids to an area of the Yellow that went from 10′ to 4′ and weeds. The plan was for them to use a slip bobber and leeches and I would pitch #5 shad raps. Well after about 5 fish in a row the kids wanted their own pole with a shad rap on it. That was the end of my fishing as I spent the next hour helping them take their fish off…I lost count but they must have boated over 15 eyes. All the fish ranged from 13″ – 19″. The hot color of choice tonight was firetiger…which wasn’t a surpise to me because that has been the hot color so far this year for me.
All in all it was a blast for them as they have never caught walleye like that in their short lives, but I know it won’t be to hard to get them in the boat again. We ended the night by keeping the 19″ and a typical 13″…the 21″ was released after I caught the 19″.
The wife and kids are going to be gone all weekend…I wonder what I’ll be doing this weekend? 
Looking forward to the weekend.
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